diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libvirt/5.4.0.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libvirt/5.9.0.nix
similarity index 77%
rename from pkgs/development/libraries/libvirt/5.4.0.nix
rename to pkgs/development/libraries/libvirt/5.9.0.nix
index dd0a88974d0..3a57a91a22a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libvirt/5.4.0.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libvirt/5.9.0.nix
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 , iproute, iptables, readline, lvm2, utillinux, systemd, libpciaccess, gettext
 , libtasn1, ebtables, libgcrypt, yajl, pmutils, libcap_ng, libapparmor
 , dnsmasq, libnl, libpcap, libxslt, xhtml1, numad, numactl, perlPackages
-, curl, libiconv, gmp, zfs, parted, bridge-utils, dmidecode
+, curl, libiconv, gmp, zfs, parted, bridge-utils, dmidecode, glib
 , enableXen ? false, xen ? null
 , enableIscsi ? false, openiscsi
 , enableCeph ? false, ceph
@@ -17,50 +17,26 @@ let
   buildFromTarball = stdenv.isDarwin;
 in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "libvirt";
-  version = "5.4.0";
+  version = "5.9.0";
 
   src =
     if buildFromTarball then
       fetchurl {
         url = "http://libvirt.org/sources/${pname}-${version}.tar.xz";
-        sha256 = "0ywf8m9yz2hxnic7fylzlmgy4m353r4vv5zsvp89zq5yh4h81yhw";
+        sha256 = "0fc9jxw3v6x5hc10bkd7bbcayn24hbld5adj2gh5s648v7hx55il";
       }
     else
       fetchgit {
         url = git://libvirt.org/libvirt.git;
         rev = "v${version}";
-        sha256 = "1dja1mf295w0sl83zag62c4j55cfbzzfbhdxpkyv2zm3zv0mwdyc";
+        sha256 = "0smm77ag8bg24xkbhl4akqikjrsq2pd3wk31nj0hk1avqnl00gmk";
         fetchSubmodules = true;
       };
 
-  patches = optionals (!stdenv.isDarwin) [
-    (fetchpatch {
-      name = "5.4.0-CVE-2019-10161.patch";
-      url = "https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=patch;h=aed6a032cead4386472afb24b16196579e239580";
-      sha256 = "19k9z9xx68nf03igbgy1imxnlp5ppj7cgdbq9kri3s834hkjcygs";
-    })
-  ] ++ [
-    (fetchpatch {
-      name = "5.4.0-CVE-2019-10166.patch";
-      url = "https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=patch;h=db0b78457f183e4c7ac45bc94de86044a1e2056a";
-      sha256 = "17pd1rab2mxj4q0vg30vi2gh78mf52ik1p5l12wrghb0wjf7swml";
-    })
-    (fetchpatch {
-      name = "5.4.0-CVE-2019-10167.patch";
-      url = "https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=patch;h=8afa68bac0cf99d1f8aaa6566685c43c22622f26";
-      sha256 = "0hgbwk0y2n6ihzjk8vqabhw914axjqgzcb7c5xx893r86c54c0ml";
-    })
-    (fetchpatch {
-      name = "5.4.0-CVE-2019-10168.patch";
-      url = "https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=patch;h=bf6c2830b6c338b1f5699b095df36f374777b291";
-      sha256 = "0s4hc3hsjncx1852ndjas1nng9v23pxf4mi1jxcajsqvhw89la0g";
-    })
-  ];
-
   nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [
     libxml2 gnutls perl python2 readline gettext libtasn1 libgcrypt yajl
-    libxslt xhtml1 perlPackages.XMLXPath curl libpcap
+    libxslt xhtml1 perlPackages.XMLXPath curl libpcap glib
   ] ++ optionals (!buildFromTarball) [
     libtool autoconf automake
   ] ++ optionals stdenv.isLinux [
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/libvirt/5.4.0.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/libvirt/5.9.0.nix
similarity index 85%
rename from pkgs/development/python-modules/libvirt/5.4.0.nix
rename to pkgs/development/python-modules/libvirt/5.9.0.nix
index 46d8a990f53..ef5da737e08 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/libvirt/5.4.0.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/libvirt/5.9.0.nix
@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "libvirt";
-  version = "5.4.0";
+  version = "5.9.0";
 
   src = fetchgit {
     url = git://libvirt.org/libvirt-python.git;
     rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "0ja35z90i3m7vsjfpzfm7awkmja3h0150376i5pzmf2q8vp61fi5";
+    sha256 = "0qvr0s7yasswy1s5cvkm91iifk33pb8s7nbb38zznc46706b358r";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index c74dee307d9..81985fb6b4e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -13241,7 +13241,7 @@ in
   libversion = callPackage ../development/libraries/libversion { };
 
   libvirt = callPackage ../development/libraries/libvirt { };
-  libvirt_5_4_0 = callPackage ../development/libraries/libvirt/5.4.0.nix { };
+  libvirt_5_9_0 = callPackage ../development/libraries/libvirt/5.9.0.nix { };
 
   libvirt-glib = callPackage ../development/libraries/libvirt-glib { };
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index c4ea9dc6ac1..1af1e4207fc 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -6414,9 +6414,9 @@ in {
 
   libvirt = if isPy3k then (callPackage ../development/python-modules/libvirt {
     inherit (pkgs) libvirt pkgconfig;
-  }) else (callPackage ../development/python-modules/libvirt/5.4.0.nix {
+  }) else (callPackage ../development/python-modules/libvirt/5.9.0.nix {
     inherit (pkgs) pkgconfig;
-    libvirt = pkgs.libvirt_5_4_0;
+    libvirt = pkgs.libvirt_5_9_0;
   });
 
   rpdb = callPackage ../development/python-modules/rpdb { };